Roman numeral date on title page made with backwards C's

"Auec grace & priuil. de la Maiest. Imper. pour quatre ans" following French title is printed on a slip and pasted on

Constitutes part one, sole issue of the French edition of Theodor de Bry's Great voyages, printed in fourteen parts, in Latin, German, French, and English, in Frankfurt am Main, Oppenheim, and Hanau from 1590-1644, and the Elenchus, an outline of the thirteen Latin parts, published by Matthias Merian in Frankfurt am Main in 1634

This work had been identified as the first part of the sole French edition of the Great voyages by Church

This is the only French edition of any of the Great voyages printed by the de Bry Firm

French translation, of: A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia / by Thomas Harriot, first printed London, 1588

Colophon reads: A Francfort de l'imprimerie Ian Wechel, aux despens de Theodore de Bry. M D XC

"Les vrays povrtraicts, et facons de vivre dv pevple d'vne partie de l'Ameriqve novvellement appellee Virginia par les Anglois qui furent enuoyez descouurir l'an. 1585. a la principale charge de honorable Messire Walter Raleig cheualier & surintendant des mines d'Estain, fauorise en ceste entreprinse par la maiesté de la royne d'Angleterre, & autorisé par les lettres patentes. Recveillis diligemment, et tirez sur le naturel, par Jan With, qui a esté expressement enuoyé audit païs pour ce faire l'anne susdite 1585. & celle d[e] l'an. 1588. puis taillez en cuiure & nouuellement mis en lumiere par Theodore de Bry, à ses propres despens", p. [2-3], 2nd count, has divisional title page

"Avcvns povrtraicts des Pictes ancienement habitans vne partie de la Grand Bretaigne", p. [19-20], 2nd count, has divisional title page

Signatures: a⁴ (a1 verso blank) b⁶ c⁴ d⁸ (d3 verso, d4 verso, d6 recto, d7 verso blank) A⁶ B-C⁸ D⁶ (D6 blank) (D5 missigned D4) E⁸ F⁶ (F5 verso, F6 blank)

Errata: p. [32], 2nd count

Includes index on p. [29-31], 2nd count

Fully engraved and illustrated title page; engraved head and tail pieces; initials

Contains 31 leaves of plates which are numbered I-XXIII following p. [2-3], 2nd count, one of which is a double map of Virginia with the names of the native tribes and their locations, and two other doubles plates, the rest of which are printed on recto only with descriptive letterpress text, and which are signed [d4-d8] and A⁶ B-C⁸ D⁶ E⁸ F⁶; plates numbered I-V follow p. [19-20], 2nd count, and contain illustrations of the mysterious people known as the Picts, which are printed on recto only, and are signed E⁸ and F1-2

The plate of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, engraved by Theodor de Bry, is considered by Church to be not only leaf d6 but also plate [I] following "Les vrays povrtraicts, et facons de vivre dv pevple d'vne partie de l'Ameriqve novvellement appellee Virginia par les Anglois qui furent enuoyez descouurir l'an. 1585", p. [2-3], 2nd count; here it is not counted as a plate. The double map of Virginia, listed as plate I "Tabula generalis totius regionis situm ob oculos ponens", bound between leaves d7 and d8 should be listed as plate [I] in Church

Church, E.D. Discovery

Echeverria & Wilkie. French image

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675

Alden, J.E. European Americana

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting double map of Virginia with the names of the native tribes and their locations intended to have been bound between leaves d7 and d8; wanting p. [17-18], 2nd count, which is blank leaf D6

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